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HIST BC2385 Global Environmental History

A research guide for Professor Caglioti's Global Environmental History Class (Fall 2024)

About Citing Your Work

When you cite your work, you give credit to the authors and works you may have used to construct and support your own argument. Academic writing requires citation and your discipline determines the citation style you use in your paper. The most commonly used styles at Barnard are APA, MLA, and Chicago and the citation style depends on the discipline. Because Chicago Style is the preferred one for history, you should use that for your writing in your history classes. 

Citation (& the politics of citiation)

  • Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed.Chicago Manual of Style has full details on citing primary & archival material in Chicago style. You can also the style guide in print.
  • MLA Citiation Style: An overview that should help you better understand how to cite sources using MLA 9th edition, including how to format the Works Cited page and in-text citations.
  • Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL): OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
  • Citation Practices Challenge
  • Cite Black Women.
  • Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)
  • The Importance of Citational Justice
  • Citational Politics - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
  • Citational Politics - Pratt Institute Libraries